Derick,
It's funny that the Nextstation was built around the PPC, which Jobs -
the same fellow who started Next walked away from when he came back to
Apple.
Er, no! The NeXTs were based on the 68k. They predated PPC by several
years (the first NeXT machine was released in 1988, PowerPC
Hi Warren:
It's funny that the Nextstation was built around the PPC, which Jobs -
the same fellow who started Next walked away from when he came back to
Apple.
I'm sure that decision was based on a business reality which made sense
to Jobs at the time. In any case, when it comes to scientific
Warren, have you ever heard of R? I did sometime back and I've been
playing and using it within YDL. It's source is available here:
http://www.r-project.org/
You may be able to do your work in R and drop Igor. R may be that
good. I compiled it sometime ago and it works fine. As far as cad
In my opinion, this will
never change with PPC hardware, which is a tiny niche of a small
niche. It would be nice if a PPC vendor like Fixstars could fix this,
but they would need serious cooperation from the GPU manufacturers
and that is likely not forthcoming (the PS3 linux disaster is a
Caveat Warren: Remember that Ubuntu quit supporting the PowerPC
officially back in version 6. What you've acquired is an unofficial
community effort. I understand your frustration; I thought you
would prefer to be clear regarding the lay of the land.
Still all the best...Derick
On Jan
